The Time before Death : : Twentieth-Century Memoirs.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 159
• Author: Ponomareff, Constantin V.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 159; Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 159.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This collection of fifteen essays deals with the literary memoirs of major twentieth-century writers and focuses on the spiritual, physical and moral devastation of 20th century life. They are comparative and cross-cultural. There is no other collection of essays with this range brought under one cover.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Metaphor of Loss in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory -- André Gide’s If It Die: The Creative Gamble -- Günter Grass’s Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: The Final Battle with the Black Witch -- Jean-Paul Sartre’s Words: On the Impact of Childhood -- Boris Pasternak’s Safe Conduct and I Remember: A Charmed Life -- Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening: A Tormented Spirit -- Arthur Koestler’s The Invisible Writing: Autobiography as Escape from the Self -- Maxim Gorky’s Childhood: Beyond Good and Evil -- Octavio Paz’s The Itinerary. An Intellectual Journey: In Search of Identity -- Stefan Zweig’s Die Welt von Gestern: A Bipolar Journey -- Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being: The Silence Within -- Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks: The Chameleon Self -- Christa Wolf’s One Day A Year, 1960-2000: The Fear of Self-Revelation -- Natalie Sarraute’s Enfance: The Return to Life -- Lidiya Chukovskaya’s To the Memory of Childhood: In Her Father’s Shadow -- One Last Farmstead of Feeling.